The administration of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant said Thursday on the completion of works on restoration of the affected almost two years earlier enclosing contour of the turbine hall 4-th power. It was planned that the circuit will be renovated by the end of 2013.

in the engine room of the 4-th unit of Chernobyl February 12, 2013 was the partial destruction of the wall panels and part of the light roof, the area of destruction was about 600 square meters. This was due to the depreciation of structures, and not because of the accumulated snow, As was reported by the media. According to the press service of the plant, changes in the radiation environment at the ChNPP industrial site and in the area of exclusion is not documented, received no damage.

According to the site, December 25, signed the Act of readiness of the object for operation in the framework of the project " restoration of the enclosing contour of the turbine hall of the 4th unit of Chernobyl between the axes 46-52 and a-B ".

" in an emergency opening formed in the end the destruction of the wall panels and part of the roof of the turbine hall unit has a spatial unit weighs 53 tons. It completely covers emergency opening, which arose as a result of an abnormal event occurred on February 12, 2013. The act confirms that the planned project events done, " said the report.

in result of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on 26 April 1986 the total area of radioactive contamination in Ukraine amounted to 50 thousand square kilometers in 12 areas from radioactive contamination has damaged 19 Russian regions and part of the territory of Belarus. Victims of the Chernobyl disaster in 25 years, according to various sources, from 25 thousand to 100 thousand people.

After PE over the emergency unit of the station was built sarcophagus, which in the last few years is gradually destroyed. At the end of 2007, the cartel Novarka, a French-led companies began to create new confinement Shelter - confinement (He will be " nadenut " the old), the construction of which was due to be completed in 2015. The other day, the commemoration day of the victims involved in the destruction of the Chernobyl disaster, the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has promised to finish the sarcophagus over the destroyed reactor in a difficult state conditions ".

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